Mehmed's Quotes

#1. To Radu, my brother, I do not acknowledge your new title, nor Mehmed's. Tell the lying coward I send no congratulations. He sent none to me when I took my throne in spite of him. You did not choose right. Tell Mehmed Wallachia is mine. With all defiance, Lada Dracul, Prince of Wallachia

Kiersten White

#2. Marry me, Lada. It is the perfect solution." Lada laughed. Mehmed's smile grew, until he realized her laugh was not a sweet breeze of delight, but a brutal desert wind carrying stinging sand in its wake. "I will never marry.

Kiersten White

#3. Lada imagined she was climbing to Mehmed's side to fight next to him. And then she imagined she would be aiming the cannon at his heart instead.

Kiersten White

#4. Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

Amy Tan

#5. Patience is the key of content.

Mehmed The Conqueror

#6. She would never admit it to Nicolae, could barely admit it to herself, but she would stay for Mehmed. She would stay for the way she felt when his mouth or eyes were on her. And she would stay for the power it gave her.

Kiersten White

#7. Her gaze dims as her nostalgia for Palermo overcomes her. Those smells of seaweed dried by the sun, of capers, of ripe figs, she will never find them anywhere else; those burnt and scented shores, those waves slowly breaking, jasmine petals flaking in the sun.

Dacia Maraini

#8. I had the worst birthday party ever when I was a child because my parents hired a pony to give rides. And these ponies are never in good health. But this one dropped dead. It just wasn't much fun after that. One kid would sit on him and the rest of us would drag him around.

Rita Rudner

#9. I'm a pixy, Rachel. I may look all tough and stuff, but I got wings, and I know infatuation when I see it.

Kim Harrison

#10. Subconsciously, every one believes in angels, fairies, magic and a happy ever after.

Kaye P.

#11. Perhaps, looking out over it, Mehmed saw what the beginning of his legacy would eventually lead to. Whatever Mehmed did, whatever he built, the greatest city in the world was irrefutable evidence that all things died.

Kiersten White

#12. Here is the threshold I do not cross: a sliver of light through the doorway finds his tattoo, the anchor on his forearm tangled in its chain.

Natasha Trethewey

#13. I want to help the helpless, but I don't want to help the clueless.

Dennis Miller

#14. Should any man tell you that a mountain had changed its place, you are at liberty to doubt it if you think fit; but if any one tells you that a man has changed his character, do not believe it.

Mehmed The Conqueror

#15. Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

Roland Emmerich

#16. Images of being empress next to Mehmed haunted her when she closed her eyes. It was the worst part of everything, knowing that, on some level, she wanted that much power, even at that cost.

Kiersten White

#17. What, then, was left to her? She had no allies. She had no throne. She had no Mehmed, no Radu. She had only these sharp men and sharp knives and sharp dreams, and no way to make use of any of them.

Kiersten White

#18. Either I conquer Istanbul or Istanbul conquers me.

Mehmed The Conqueror

#19. Greece is the mother of science and the source of knowledge.

Mehmed The Conqueror

#20. He had imagined Constantinople, had wanted it for Mehmed. It had been simple and straightforward. But now he knew the true cost of things, the murky horrors of the distance between wanting something and getting it.

Kiersten White

#21. Clinical psychologists have proven that ordinary people
will alter their memories of the past to make them fit
their perceptions. It is the way all normal brains function
under ordinary circumstances.

Scott Adams

#22. Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.

Tony Robbins

#23. I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

St. Jerome

#24. Drive fast, take chances. Interpretation: Don't worry about breaking the emotional speed limit. Rush headlong into life and enjoy every moment of exhilaration!

Nikki DiCaro

#25. Never confuse honor with stupidity!

R.A. Salvatore

#26. I cannot afford to lose you, too"
"You cannot lose something you do not own. Take me with you

Kiersten White

#27. Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Jodi Picoult

#28. Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Friedrich Nietzsche